Improvement in portable stoves for heating water and cooking



lGEORGE H. FEVRRIS.

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IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE STOVES FOR HEATING WATER AND COOKING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,347, dated March 5, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

I, GEORGE H. FERRIs, of Chicago, in the county of Cool; and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and Improved Cooking Apparatus, of which the following is a speciication:

This invention relates to a cooking apparatus constructed in a very compact form, whereby a variety of articles may be cooked by steam, also by frying, and water kept constantly hot with very little fuel. It is also portable, being small, and is easily transported, making it peculiarly adapted for camp cooking.

In the dra-wing, Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is aplanview with top removed, showing interior construction. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section.

'A is an oval metal case, in which are arranged two cylindrical chambers,B and C,that sit on a second bottom plate, Af, in the case A. The top ofthe chamber B is made open, and is designed for the lire-chamber, which may be covered with a movable cover. Over this chamber B may be placed a trying-pan or gridiron for frying or broiling. The bottom ofthe rechamber Bis a grate or perforated bottom, B, having the back turned up, as seen a-t b, leaving a space, b', for the re to pass over and down in the direction of the arrow under the chamber C. The space under the grate or bottoni B forms an ash-pit, connectedby an openin g d, with the hearth, D, which gives a draught to the lire. The space E around the chamber B, down to the bottom B', is a water-space, which supplies steam for cooking` vegetables, Src., in the steamer F, which sits over the chamber C, steam being conducted by a pipe, g, leading from the space E into the bottom of the steamer. The chamber C is designed for a reservoir for hot water, and supplies the place of a tea-kettle, the water bein g constant- 1y kept hot and ready for use. The space h around the chamber C forms a heat-space, in connection with the space under it, which is divided by a partition, I, which runs bac-k under the reservoir part of the. way, which, by closing the damper K, causes the heat and smoke to pass around before it can escape through the outlet-pipe l. Then the damper K is open there is adirect draught to the outlet-pipe, which is employed when the tire is first made. An opening, O, at one side of the top of the case A is intended for the purpose of dipping out water when required, the steamer forming a cover to the same, but which may be turned around on the pipe g as a pivot when desired to uncover the hole O. A pipe, m, connects the water-space E with the reservoir C, so that the water-space is fed by the reservoir, and need not have any other opening.

-Any of the known furniture for stoves can be used on this stove. Itis not designed to make it a large stove. for extensive cooking, but for a small, compact, and ready Cooking apparatus, suitable for camp or summer use, it is admirably adapted, as but very little fuel is -required to run it.

I claim- The chambers B and C, the chambeI-B surrounded by the water-space E, and chamber C surrounded by the heat-space h, the pipes g and m, when they are combined and arranged within the case A, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

' GEORGE H. FERRIS.

Vitnesses WILLIAM CLARK, Enwo. SUTTON. 

